ColoradoCare Isn’t What it Seems Every few election cycle a proposition to have universal healthcare pops out. This year, Colorado voters will have to vote on Amendment 69, which would replace the present Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) provisions with a single public option; a kind of Medicare for all for the state. At first, the proposition looks enticing. The present healthcare system is riddled with inefficiencies and high costs. Indeed, the U.S. spends 17.4 percent of its total GDP on healthcare; Canada is only at 10.2 percent despite universal healthcare. According to supporters of the proposition, Coloradans would save...

(Keep in mind that it was written for The Blaze) Despite a tight race in Iowa, Donald Trump has come back and won in New Hampshire, getting 35 percent of the votes. Although there is still a long way to go before the convention, this victory should be worrisome for any conservative or people wanting real change. Here are four reasons why. He’s a Fascist While the word fascist usually evokes an infamous Austrian dictator, it’s very fitting for Trump. Like a dictator he uses government might to fulfill his personal ambitions. You might have heard of Vera Coking, a...

Until the end of January you will see real pro-choice people. No, not people who only want to let women get abortions. I am talking about people who actually care about children and their education during the Fifth Annual School Choice Week. Here are three reasons why you should pay attention. The More Choice, The Better First and foremost, as with almost any market, more choice means you have more options for your children. Can you send your child to a nearby school district because they have better programs? Can your child not attend your neighborhood’s public school because it...

The Democrats love to boast themselves as the “party of science.” But after listening to the Democratic Debate last Saturday, one can say that this science is not economics. In fact they uttered so many lies that they should be called economics “deniers.” First of all, they love to talk about how the middle class’ income barely rose since the 1990s compared to CEOs. There may be some truth to that statement, but it misses the elephant in the room: the Federal Reserve. Be it in the late 1920s, 1960s, 1990s or 2000s it was one of the main culprit...

Starting November 30, people from all around the world will be (or at least should be) converging towards Paris for the much-talked Climate Conference. As can be expected from such an event, the climate hysteria will be at the forefront of the talks in hopes to solve the (imaginary) climate problem. Yes, imaginary. Most of what you hear about climate in the media is either false or hidden from your sight – fueling fear is very profitable for the media. So no, the climate is not getting hotter and hotter contrary to what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration claims....

Since the media either focused its attention on Obama's blunder in Afghanistan or on the new bureaucratic agreement on commerce in the Pacific, a most important (and joyful) news probably slipped your attention. Indeed, for the first time in history, extreme poverty now affect less than 10 percent of the population. And that even happened even thought the World Bank changed the definition - it's now living with $1.90/day or less, whereas it used to be $1.25. Who should we thank for this apparent miracle? Labor unions? No, not really. They are greatly responsible for workers' impoverishment since they can't...

A few days ago I received my water bill. Although we - we are only two humans in the house - haven't consumed as much water this year (3 CCF) compared to last (7), I was still amazed to see that the two of us still consumed over 2,200 gallons of water in the past two months (over 8,300 litres, enough to fill 22 bath tubs). Don't get me wrong, this is not an article about "saving the planet at any cost." Although I find our water usage a little high, I'm still grateful we have an easy access...

There are elections in Canada right now, and the niqab has suddenly become a pressing issue. A court recently ruled that governement cannot forbid women not to wear this (almost) occlusive veil for citizenship ceremonies. So far, the Conservative Party (in power) opposes women wearing it for the ceremonies as does the Bloc québécois (a separatist party on the federal level). The Liberal and New Democratic Parties, on their side, either avoid the question or actually support it, probably because of “multiculturalism.” It apparently played against them as the CP and the BQ surged in a recent survey. Let’s not kid...

Yet another article deemed not good enough. Comments are appreciated Congress needs to thoroughly review the budgetary process in order to face exploding costs in entitlement programs states a new report from the Mercatus Center. The process is presently ruled by the Budget Act of 1974, which can easily control discretionary spending by cutting it if it goes over a determined cap. But entitlements such as Medicare are part of mandatory spending, and according to Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center James A.Capretta, these spendings virtually know no limit. Such lack of restrain could create emergency situations....

The article was deemed "left with too many unanswered questions", so any comment on that subject is welcomed. Public union employees in Missouri can carry out union duties during regular business hours without any salary penalty, a new publication from the Competitive Enterprise Institute reveals. This practice, known as union release time, amounts to taxpayers subsidizing public employees not to work. "For example the Parkway School District issued the Communication Workers of America [which also unionize public workers] 20 days of release time in 2011-2012 at a cost of $2,489.76," policy analyst Trey Kovacs said in his full report from information obtained from...

(Originally published here) Imagine a world without fossil fuel; a world where nature remains untouched. Animal populations increase or decrease following their natural predation cycles, no natural resource is extracted and no pollution whatsoever exists. This dreamy Eden for anti-humanist environmentalists has “a few” downsides: Phenomenal population decrease from lack of accessible food, from increased infantile mortality due to the lack of modern medicine and from increased disasters that can’t be resisted for lack of modern technology. The only thing that prevents such an apocalypse are… fossil fuels. For people who value human life above anything else, cheap, abundant, reliable...